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READINGTHE RIOTSON TWITTER What role did social media play? 2.6 million riot tweets (donated by Twitter) 700,000 individual accounts Importance of empirical evidence Initially: o Role of Rumours (misinformation) o Did incitement take place? [no – #riotcleanup] o What is the role of different actors on Twitter?

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Dick Costolo (Twitter CEO):‘He created this installation that was at the Tatemuseum in London a while back and the installationwas these hundreds of thousands of ceramic hand-painted sunflower seeds... And as you stood back fromthe room it looked like this sea of just stones that wereblack stones that were spread across the floor and ofcourse you couldn’t really tell what they were. But asyou got closer it looks like, you can start to tell ‘ooh itlooks like they’ve stamped out hundreds of thousandsof sunflower seeds and spread them across the floor’.But as you pick them up you started to realise that theywere all individually shaped and painted differently andunique and beautiful and distinct in their own right. Sothat’s what we want to bring to what we’re building: theability to shrink the world and allow everybody to seeeach other.’

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So that’s what we want to bring towhat we’re building: the ability toshrink the world and alloweverybody to see each other.’